Twinning Blog
CLAPV wins Asian Nobel award
This years participant in the EU-China NGO twinning wins the "Asian Nobel" award. The Center for Legal Assistance for Pollution Victims and its founder Wang Canfa put their efforts into offering legal advice and training for attorneys fighting against environmental...
Press release: Seven NGOs from China and Europe selected for Twinning
For the second year the German Stiftung Asienhaus supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung organizes the exchange program EU-China NGO Twinning.“We are happy to work with Stiftung Asienhaus on this very timely initiative”, says Christian Hänel, Head of Department...
2014-03-14 NGO-Twinner Pieter Jansen Speaks at 18th One-World-Conference of Northrhine-Westphalia
On March 15th, the 18th One-World-Conference of Northrhine-Westphalia took place in Bonn. The event was attended by more than 300 international guests, mainly from the civil society sector. The Stiftung Asienhaus contributed with a workshop on China's resource policy....
2014-2-24 EU-China Reflection Workshop
The workshop, set in Cologne, Germany, provided the interested public with discussion on EU-China relationship and deep insights into the Twinning. The first round of EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange has successfully come to an end. Guests from Paris, London and...
Video: Hip-Hopper aus Berlin und Guangzhou im EU-China NGO-Twinning
In this video (Youtube-Link), Akim Walta from Berlin Massive and Dickid from Chee Productions Guangzhou tell their personal experiences during their twinning. Dickid (aka Yang Zhiqi) spent the whole September 2013 in Germany participating in several public events and...
Chickenshed in China
Last week Dave Carey, Chickenshed's Director of Creative Development, and Charlie Kemp, a member of their Artistic Staff, returned from a two-week visit to their Chinese partner organization Hunan Aimier. A far-off land, a different culture, language challenges and an...
2014-02-24 Workshop and Forum: EU – China Civil Society Partnerships. First-hand Reports from NGO Twinning Exchange
The first round of EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange has successfully come to an end. Five exchange fellows from Chinese NGOs and five from European organizations each have spent exciting work-and-study stages in their partner organization in the respective other region....
Fifth Twinning Partners Chickenshed and Hunan Aimier Start Exchange on Inclusive Theatre
The EU-China NGO Twinning participants Dave Carey and Charlie Kemp from the UK inclusive theatre company Chickenshed have arrived in the city of Changsha in Central China at their partner organization Hunan Aimier. The Chinese organization is committed to the...
Video: Twinning Participant Michael Bender (Grüne Liga e.V.) on His Exchange Experience with the Kunming NGO YEDI
In this interview, Michael Bender reports on his exchange experience and benefits with the Yunnan Environmental Development Institute (YEDI) in Kunming. As a participant in the EU-China NGO Twinning exchange program the water policy manager stayed with Grüne Liga’s...
„Chinese Civil Society Advocacy Strategies“ – Capacity Building Workshop for European Twinners
On November 8th the European participants (now in the midst of their stay with their Chinese partner organizations), met with local NGO workers in Kunming for a capacity building workshop. The workshop aimed at informing them about the historical development of civil...
NGO Salon Kunming December 23rd, 2013
On 23rd of December 2013 Michael Bender from Grüne Liga (Germany) gave a workshop on "Challenges and solutions for transboundary water policies(river protection) in Europe (欧洲跨境河流保护的挑战与思考)in Kunming at the Home of NGO, a local NGO platform which organizes regular NGO...
NGO Salon Kunming December 7th, 2013
On 7th of December 2013 Pieter Jansen from BothEnds (NL) gave a workshop on Green Finances in Kunming in the Home of NGO, a local NGO platform which organizes regular NGO salons. Around 15 people particitpated. There was a lively discussion and after the event, many...
Water policy manager from NGO Grüne Liga joins the YEDI team in Kunming
After YEDI’s executive manager, Ms. Liu Yun spent a month in at the Berlin office of their partner organization Grüne Liga e.V. , Michael Bender from Grüne Liga has now arrived in Kunming for the reverse exchange. For one month he will gather insights into the work of...
Successful Workshop Week in Berlin for 2013 Twinners: Information, Tackling Common Issues and Networking Opportunities
In a busy week in Berlin from Oct. 15th to Oct. 17th the Chinese participants of the EU-China NGO Twinning and some of their European counterparts had the chance to present the topics of their organizations’ cooperation and share their personal exchange experiences...
Capacity Building Workshop for Chinese Twinners – How Do Civil Societies in Europe and China Organize?
On October 15th the Chinese participants of the EU-China NGO twinning met in Berlin for a capacity building workshop. They were presented with papers on an agrarian advocacy campaign, on the interdependence of civil society and freedom of press as well as on the...
Chinese organization PIDLI and UK NGO The Rights Practice start their exchange on piloting criminal justice projects
Ding Peng from Wuhan University Public Interest and Development Law Institute (PIDLI) has also started his exchange stay with the London based NGO “The Rights Practice”. The twinning aims at exploring the operations and practical functioning of the respective other...
Green Credit Policy Exchange in Full Swing
Chen Yu from the Yunnanese NGO Green Watershed has started her exchange with BothENDS in Amsterdam in the beginning of September. The twinning aims at increasing the understanding of Green Credit policies’ effectiveness in Europe and China, and offers the opportunity...
Insights into the work and cooperation of European Water NGOS – YEDI’s Liu Yun on tour in Germany
As the second Chinese exchange fellow Liu Yun from the "Yunnan Environmental Development Institute” (YEDI) started her work-and-study-stage at the Berlin NGO "Grüne Liga". The exchange aims at fostering a better understanding and application of holistic and...
Guangzhou CHEE productions and Berlin Massive kick off exchange
The very first round of EU-China NGO Twinning started in the beginning of September with the arrival of „Dickid“ from the Guangzhou-based CHEE productions at their partner organization Berlin Massive in Berlin, Germany. The two twinning organizations aim to cooperate...
Open Event: First EU-China NGO exchange fellows present their exchange experience
Tackling Common Issues Through Learning Partnerships – The EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange program Agenda On October 17th the Chinese and European exchange fellows of this year’s first round of NGO Twinning will introduce their organizations and common work focus. They...
